Genre: Drama
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Michael Collins 1996

Neil Jordan's depiction of the controversial life and death of Michael Collins, the "Lion of Ireland", who led the IRA against the UK and helped found the Irish Free State in 1922.

Category: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Ian Hart,Julia Roberts,Richard Ingram,Liam Neeson

7.1 IMDB Rating 4,496 Views
One Fine Day 1996

Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammy's propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggie's tendency to wander.

Category: Comedy, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer,George Clooney,Mae Whitman,Alex D. Linz

6.5 IMDB Rating 3,529 Views
The Spitfire Grill 1996

Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring resentment and fear in some, and growth in others.

Category: Drama

Stars: Alison Elliott,Ellen Burstyn,Marcia Gay Harden,Will Patton

6.9 IMDB Rating 3,205 Views
One Eight Seven 1997

High school teacher Trevor Garfield is stabbed by bad-boy student. Fifteen months later, he moves to Los-Angeles to the unruly, predominantly Latino school. He has to tame wolf-like students.

Category: Drama, Thriller

Stars: Samuel L. Jackson,John Heard,Kelly Rowan,Clifton Collins Jr.

6.7 IMDB Rating 4,402 Views
Air Bud 1997

A young boy and a talented stray dog with an amazing basketball playing ability become instant friends. Rebounding from his father's accidental death, 12-year-old Josh Framm moves with his family to the small town of Fernfield, Washington. The new kid in town, Josh has no friends and is too shy to try out for the school basketball team. Instead he prefers to practice alone on an abandoned court, he befriends a runaway golden retriever named Buddy. Josh is amazed when he realizes that Buddy loves basketball...that is playing basketball...and he is GOOD! Josh eventually makes the school team and Buddy is named the Team Mascot. Josh and Buddy become the stars of halftime. Buddy's half-time talent draws media attention. Unfortunately, when Buddy's mean former owner, Norm Snively, comes along with a scheme to cash in on the pup's celebrity, it looks like they are going to be separated.

Category: Comedy, Drama, Family, Kids

Stars: Michael Jeter,Kevin Zegers,Wendy Makkena,Bill Cobbs

5.1 IMDB Rating 5,889 Views
Bent 1997

Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny he is gay, and gets a yellow label (the one for Jews) instead of pink (the one for gays). In camp, he falls in love with fellow prisoner Horst, who wears his pink label with pride.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Mick Jagger,Clive Owen,Brian Webber,Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

7.3 IMDB Rating 5,279 Views
Happy Together 1997

Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing's life shatters continually in contrast.

Category: Drama, Romantic

Stars: Leslie Cheung,Tony Leung Chiu-Wai,Chen Chang,Gregory Dayton

7.8 IMDB Rating 4,789 Views
Gummo 1997

Constructing this film through random scenes, director Harmony Korine abruptly jettisoned any sort of narrative plot, so here we go: Solomon and Tummler are two bored teenage boys who live in Xenia, Ohio. A few years ago, a tornado swept through it, destroying more than half the town and killing the same amount, including Solomon's father. The film, from there, chronicles the anti-social adventures these two boys have. These include sniffing glue, killing cats, having sex, riding dirtbikes, listening to black metal, and meeting a cavalcade of quirky, bizarre, and scary people. These include a man who pimps his mentally ill wife to our anti-heroes, three sisters who play with their cat and practice becoming strippers, a black midget fending off the sexual advances of a troubled man (played by the director Harmony Korine), a 12-year-old gay transvestite who is also a cat killer, Solomon's mother who seems to be the only glimpse of sanity, two foul-mouthed six-year olds, and most importantly, a nymphlike skateboarder who walks around town wearing pink rabbit ears.

Category: Comedy, Drama

Stars: Jacob Sewell,Nick Sutton,Lara Tosh,Jacob Reynolds

6.7 IMDB Rating 3,990 Views
Prefontaine 1997

Life and times of Steve Prefontaine, a young long-distance runner from Oregon who pursued the dream of Olympic gold in Munich and became one of the biggest, yet most tragic sport stars in America.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Jared Leto,R. Lee Ermey,Ed O'Neill,Breckin Meyer

6.8 IMDB Rating 3,524 Views
Stag 1997

Victor Mallick returned to his home and found out that all of his friends have arranged a surprise bachelor/stag party for him. Two strippers were hired to cheer up the party. However, when some of the men accidentally killed one of the strippers, they are left to face the consequences of their action.

Category: Action, Drama, Thriller

Stars: John Stockwell,Mario Van Peebles,Jerry Stiller,Gerald Anthony

5.6 IMDB Rating 3,205 Views
The Sweet Hereafter 1997

A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its anger and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing.

Category: Drama

Stars: Ian Holm,Caerthan Banks,Sarah Polley,Tom McCamus

7.7 IMDB Rating 3,372 Views
The Eel 1997

White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a barber in prison) and talks almost to no-one except for the eel he "befriended" in prison. One day he finds the unconscious body of Keiko, who attempted suicide and reminds him of his wife. She starts to work at his shop, but he doesn't let her become close to him.

Category: Drama

Stars: Kôji Yakusho,Misa Shimizu,Mitsuko Baishô,Akira Emoto

7.4 IMDB Rating 3,212 Views
One True Thing 1998

When a tough New Yorker's mother is stricken with a serious illness, she is forced to quit her job and her relationship with her boyfriend to take care of her, finding out a lot of things she didn't know about her mother and father and her life along the way.

Category: Drama

Stars: Meryl Streep,Renée Zellweger,William Hurt,Tom Everett Scott

7.0 IMDB Rating 3,390 Views
Velvet Goldmine 1998

1971: Glamrock explodes all over the world and challenges the seriousness within the flower power generation by means of glitter and brutal music. Brian Slade, a young rock star, inspires numerous teenage boys and girls to paint their nails and explore their own sexuality. In the end Slade destroys himself. Unable to escape the character role of "Maxwell Demon" that he created, he plots his own murder. When fans discover the murder is not real, his star falls abruptly and he is quickly forgotten about. 1984: Arthur, a journalist working for a New York newspaper, gets assigned the tenth anniversary story about the fake murder of Brian Slade. When Arthur was young and growing up in Manchester, he was more than a fan of Slade. Reluctantly he accepts the assignment and starts to investigate what happened to his old glamrock hero.

Category: Drama, Music

Stars: Ewan McGregor,Jonathan Rhys Meyers,Christian Bale,Toni Collette

7.0 IMDB Rating 3,752 Views
Life 1999

In the mid-1990s, two inmates bury the burned bodies of two lifers at Mississippi's infamous Parchman Farm; a third old-timer relates their story. They'd served 65 years for a murder they didn't commit, framed by a local sheriff while buying moonshine whiskey for a Manhattan club owner to whom they owed money. In flashbacks we see this odd couple thrown together (Ray is a fast-talking con man, and Claude is a serious man about to start work as a bank teller), the loss of Ray's watch (sterling silver, from his daddy), the murder and trial, the hardships of Parchman, and the love-hate relationship of Claude and Ray as they spend 65 years bickering and looking for a way to escape.

Category: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Stars: Eddie Murphy,Martin Lawrence,Obba Babatundé,Nick Cassavetes

6.7 IMDB Rating 7,158 Views
Pecker 1998

A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when a photographer's photos he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world.

Category: Comedy, Drama

Stars: Edward Furlong,Christina Ricci,Bess Armstrong,Mark Joy

6.4 IMDB Rating 3,051 Views
Run Lola Run 1998

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Franka Potente,Moritz Bleibtreu,Herbert Knaup,Nina Petri

7.8 IMDB Rating 3,326 Views
Driven 2001

Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's romance with his arch rival's girlfriend Sophia. With much riding on Bly, car owner Carl Henry brings former racing star Joe Tanto on board to help Bly. To drive Bly back to the top of the rankings, Tanto must first deal with the emotional scars left over from a tragic racing accident which nearly took his life.

Category: Action, Drama, Sport

Stars: Sylvester Stallone,Burt Reynolds,Kip Pardue,Stacy Edwards

4.5 IMDB Rating 5,092 Views
At First Sight 1999

First Sight is true to the title from start to finish. Val Kilmer skates in the dark appears FIRST to Mira Sorvino car headlights driving lost searching for her retreat spa motel. Kilmers FIRST visual memory links him coincidently to his last. This is a true love drama with Nathan Lane providing laughs counseling visual therapy. All stars emotional vulnerability teach the audience learning love matters in art, architecture, education, parenting, massage and trees.

Category: Drama, Romantic

Stars: Val Kilmer,Mira Sorvino,Kelly McGillis,Steven Weber

5.9 IMDB Rating 3,852 Views
Topsy-Turvy 1999

After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Allan Corduner,Dexter Fletcher,Sukie Smith,Roger Heathcott

7.4 IMDB Rating 3,070 Views